About us

History

1982

Spin-off from Max Planck Research Institute (Germany)

1988

First GMP batch for marketed product

2009

1st Biosimilar Project

2011

Acquistion by JRS

2017

Aquisition of Heidelberg Site

2020–Current

Completion of
New GMP Mid Scale Facility
GS-CHOvolution Launch

Celonic Group Leadership

Celonic is led by a group of experts, with proven track records and decades of experience in “who’s who” in the Biologics CDMO and Pharma World.

CEO

Samanta Cimitan

CFO

Alex Villiger

EVP Operations

Hans-Joachim Janhsen

Our Philosophy working with Partners

We believe that the relationship between Celonic and its clients and partners is one based on trust. Our team’s mandate is to help our clients succeed in bringing life-saving and improving drugs to patients reliably, effectively and efficiently. At Celonic, we are “straight shooters” and tell it as it is. We leverage our scientific know-how and manufacturing assets to help meet and exceed our clients needs. The principles that govern our relationship with clients and partners are listed out below.

True Partnership

Joint ownership for successful outcome

Trust

Open, deliberate transparency

Responsibility

Stewardship of time, money and resources sustainability

Led by Science

Fact based decisionmaking and learning

Entrepreneurial

Disciplined but minimizing bureaucracy

Communication

Open and frequent communication

What makes Celonic different from other CDMOs?

We understand that in the world of Biologics outsourcing that our customers have choices. What sets us apart? We believe Celonic offers a combination of the highest level of scientific expertise that one typically would find in larger CDMO’s with the agility and collaboration mindset of a family owned business. Indeed, we believe Celonic has some of the best minds in the industry (many who have come precisely from larger CDMOs or Big Pharma), backed by state of the art technology, equipment and facilities all at the service of helping our customers. Reach out to us via the “contact us” button if you would like to find out more. We are happy to have an informational discussion on your projects to explore how Celonic can help you.